Author: Yoko Tokuhiro
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contemporary, japan, series, routledge, marriage
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-11-02
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0415441102
ISBN-13: 9780415441100

The phenomenon of bankonka – ‘postponement of marriage’ – is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition. This is the first book in recent years to explore the contemporary state of marriage in Japanese society. Setting out the different perceptions and expectations of marriage in today’s Japan, the book discusses how economic issues and the family impact on marital behaviour. Contrary to the views of some feminists that young women have no intere

Author: Yoko Iyeiri
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: negation, english, aspects
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 9027232318
ISBN-13: 9789027232311

Author: Yoko Ogawa
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: professor, housekeeper
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312427808
ISBN-13: 9780312427801

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.  She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.  And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the

Author: Yoko Kawaguchi
Publisher: New Holland
Keywords: detail, western, garden, design, japanese, gardens, creating, serene
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1845379160
ISBN-13: 9781845379162

With their superbly shaped trees and shrubs, subtly colored foliage, and emphasis on nature in its pure state, Japanese Zen gardens are spaces of beauty and tranquility. Serene Gardens is an exquisitely illustrated introduction to the style and its traditions—and the only book that explains how to use western plants and materials to achieve the minimalist look beloved by Japanese garden designers. Gardeners will find plant lists; climate zone maps; instructions for selecting readily available flora, wood, bamboo, rocks, and pebbles; and gorgeous color photographs showcasing gardens from arou

Author: Yoko Ogawa
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, iris, hotel
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2010-03-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312425244
ISBN-13: 9780312425241

A tale of twisted love, from the author of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers.  When one night they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a prostitute from their room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man’s voice, in what will become the first gesture of a single long seduction.  In spite of her provincial surroundings, and her cool but controlling mother, Mari is a sophisticated observer of human desire, and she s

Author: Yoko Tawada
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, bridge, facing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-05-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 081121690X
ISBN-13: 9780811216906

From Japan to Vietnam to Amsterdam to the Canary Islands, these three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada float between cultures, identities, and the dreamwork of the imagination.When he watched Michael Jackson’s videos, every cell in Tamao’s body started to seethe: he even felt his appearance begin to change. His friends all said plastic surgery was in bad taste. But didn’t everyone harbor a secret desire for a new face? His own was as plain as a burlap sack, so he put it out of his mind and studied hard to compensate for how dull he looked. He told himself that fret

Authors:Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky, Yumi Selde,
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: begins, europe
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0811215156
ISBN-13: 9780811215152

A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world’s most innovative contemporary writers. Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada’s work blurs divisions between fact and fiction, prose and poetry. Often set in physical spaces as disparate as Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany, these tales describe a fragmented world where even a city or the human body can become a sort of text.